Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If he hadn't have played the fiddle he wouldn't have ended up in prison... 100
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Mine is "Let Down". @unusedsubstitute.bsky.social I think they're looking for someone to contribute extra vocals at the end of that track if you're up for it... 101
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 23/05/2026#Onthisday in 1840 the "Mad Duke" who created Southport died in jail. William Sutton, a publican in North Meols, had the crazy idea of building a bathing house and hotel in what was then the middle of nowhere. The place thrived and a town sprung up around, but Sutton died in a prison for debtors. 110
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Tragedy struck at Speke airport #onthisday (21 May) in 1956 as Léo Valentin, the French birdman who flew with wooden wings, plunged to his death at an air show. In the horrified crowd of 100,000 were 3 kids who went on to fame: writer Clive Barker & future Beatles George Harrison & Paul McCartney. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 20/05/2026#Onthisday (20 May) in 1872, Liverpool's greatest park was officially opened despite public outcry about the £250,000 it cost. Designed by Frenchman Édouard André (and fabulously named local architect Lewis Hornblower), the park is named after the man who once owned the land: the Earl of Sefton. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I believe growing up in Seaforth he was a fan of Bootle FC, he never really got over them going into liquidation in 1893. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Andy Burnham may soon become only the 2nd ever prime minister from Liverpool. The 1st one died #onthisday (19 May) in 1898. William Ewart Gladstone was born into a slave-owning Scottish merchant family at 62 Rodney St and grew up in Seaforth. He served as PM a record 4 times between 1868 and 1894. 100
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 18/05/2026#OnThisDay in 1958, Howard Gayle, #Liverpool's first black player, was born in Toxteth. He only played 5 times for the Reds but helped them win the '81 European Cup. In 2016, he rejected an MBE because of 'all of the Africans who have lost their lives, or who have suffered as a result of Empire.' 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 17/05/2026#Onthisday (17 May) in 1832, the UK's first cholera epidemic reached Liverpool. Over the next 4 months, nearly 5,000 cases were reported, with 1,523 deaths (a 31% mortality rate). Most of the dead were poor people living in cellars in the slums, with Irish immigrants particulary badly affected. 001
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Which Liverpool monument is made from melted-down French cannons from the Battle of Waterloo? It is the 25ft statue of the Duke of Wellington, which has looked down over the city from his column on the corner of Lime St and William Brown St for 166 years today. #liverpool #history #onthisday 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 15/05/2026#Onthisday (15 May) in 1926, two of Britain's best screenwriters were born to a Jewish family living at 55 Croxteth Rd, Liverpool 8. Peter Shaffer won an Oscar for his most famous work, Amadeus (1984). His twin Anthony was best known for three '70s films: Sleuth, The Wicker Man + Death on the Nile. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 14/05/2026#Onthisday (14 May) in 1966, Bob Dylan was in Liverpool on tour, playing the Odeon on London Rd. That afternoon, he wandered round the city and this iconic photograph of him surrounded by local kids was taken on Dublin St, near the docks. #liverpool #bobdylan #itsalrightlaimonlybleedin' 093
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 12/05/2026#onthisday in 1872 the feminist, social reformer, pro-refugee, anti-Nazi MP Eleanor Rathbone was born. The first woman on Liverpool city council, she also campaigned successfully nationally for universal women's suffrage, family allowances paid to mothers, divorce law reform and widow's pensions. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Do you know the Liverpool connection with the only British prime minister ever to be assassinated? On this day in 1812, Tory prime minister Spencer Perceval was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons. The assassin, John Bellingham was a disgruntled merchant who lived on Duke St in town. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 11/05/202640 years ago yesterday (10th May 1986) was the first all-Merseyside FA Cup final. Gary Lineker opened the scoring for Everton, but Liverpool came back to win 3-1 and leave this writer in tears in the back garden where we were watching the game (I was only seven at the time). #football #EFC #LFC 100
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 09/05/2026#Onthisday (9 May 1936), Glenda Jackson was born in Birkenhead. She grew up in Hoylake and went on to win two Oscars as an actress and serve for 23 years as a Labour MP. Another celebrity born on the Wirral on this day is Paul Heaton, singer of the Beautiful South (born in Bromborough in 1962). 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 08/05/2026#Onthisday in 1941, the Mersey ferry Royal Daffodil II was sunk by German bombs during the May Blitz, the worst bombing Liverpool ever endured. In July 1942, the ship was salvaged and it returned to ferry service the next year: a symbol of the spirit of the city. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 07/05/2026On this day (7 May 1915): German u-boats sunk the passenger ship Lusitania en route from New York to Liverpool, killing 1,197 of the people onboard. The ship's captain (who survived) was from Liverpool as were many of the 405 crew who died. The attack ultimately contributed to the US joining WWI. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 06/05/2026On this day in 1991, John Parrott became the only Scouser to ever win the World Snooker Championship. It was some redemption for the man who later became Duncan Ferguson's brother-in-law, his 18-3 defeat in his previous final (1989) remains the heaviest in the history of the tournament. #snooker 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Another on this day in Liverpool history for May 5, the birth of Echo and the Bunnymen's singer Ian McCulloch in 1959. #liverpool #history #echoandthebunnymen 030
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 06/05/2026On this day (5 May), Dixie Dean scored his 60th league goal of the 1927-28 season for champions Everton, setting a record that remains unbroken. Dean needed a hattrick vs Arsenal to beat the previous record (59) and completed it with a header 8 minutes from time. #everton #football #footballhistory 050
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Sadly the stoppage-time goals in the last three games will probably be the difference between us getting into Europe or not. But hopefully the team can pick themselves up and bring the energy from that second-half performance to the last three fixtures. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I hope Arsenal go and win the league and that our draw with City tonight was the result that makes the difference in the run in. 120
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Today's #Liverpool vs #ManchesterUnited game comes almost exactly 132 years after their first encounter, a playoff at Ewood Park in 1894 that saw Liverpool's splendidly mustachioed team beat United (then called Newton Heath) 2-0 to win their first promotion to Division 1 and relegate their rivals. 030
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 01/05/2026#Onthisday in 1941, the worst attacks in Liverpool's history began. During the 8-night May Blitz, German bombers dropped 100s of tonnes of high explosives in their most concentrated attack on any British city outside London. 1,900 people were killed, 1,450 seriously wounded and 70,000 made homeless. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 30/04/2026#Onthisday in 1881 the great Victorian poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, serving at St Xavier's Church in Everton, attended the Liverpool parade of horses. The poet was no fan of the city though, "Liverpool is of all places the most museless. It is indeed a most unhappy and miserable spot." #poetry 020
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Did you know that one of the first people in the world to have gender reassignment surgery was a Scouser? Born George Jamieson in #Liverpool #onthisday in 1935, she became April Ashley in 1960 and modelled for Vogue before being outed as a transgender woman by the Sunday People newspaper in 1961. 030
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 26/04/2026On this day in 1956 the first modern container ship left New Jersey for Texas. The Liverpool connection? Container ships, which can be unloaded in hours by cranes rather than in days by humans are the main reason why our docks, which employed tens of thousands in the '50s employ a few hundred today. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 24/04/2026On this day in 1916, Ireland's #EasterRising began as rebels seized Dublin's General Post Office (GPO) and declared independence from the UK. What's the #Liverpool connection? At least 50 rebels were from our city, including the man who some say first flew the Irish flag over the GPO: Joe Gleeson. 022
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 24/04/2026What links this lot? Harold Wilson & Edward Heath; Mr Kite, the Hendersons & Pablo Fanque; Edgar Allan Poe; Sir Walter Raleigh; Mao Zedong; Elmore James; Charles Hawtrey; BB King, Doris Day, Georgie Wood & Matt Busby. They're the only real people named in #Beatles lyrics who weren't band associates 020
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 23/04/202623rd April is the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and death. What's the Merseyside connection? Ferdinando Stanley of Knowsley Hall was patron of Lord Strange's Men, a troupe of actors Shakespeare may have joined which was the first group to perform his first play: Henry VI. #scouseshakespeare 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 23/04/2026On this day (23 April) in 1977, one of the most controversial Merseyside derbies ever saw referee Clive Thomas wrongly disallow a late #Everton winner in an FA Cup semi-final at Maine Road. #Liverpool went on to win the reply 3-0, but they ended up losing the final 2-1 to Manchester United. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 23/04/2026On 22 April 1858 James Baines, "the most perfect ship afloat", burned down in Liverpool's Huskisson Dock shortly after returning from India. The loss cost its owner, Mr James Baines, £170,000 (c.£20 million in today's money) because its insurance policy had expired 3 days earlier. #liverpoolhistory 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This is the link to that first performance of "Barlinnie Nine: A Tribute to Duncan Ferguson" by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (in case anyone thinks I'm making this up): www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpso...youtube.comOsmo Tapio Raihala: Barlinnie NineYouTube video by OTRaihalaMusic 021
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 22/04/202620 April 2005 saw the world premiere in Helsinki of Barlinnie Nine, a piece of classical music by Finnish composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä paying tribute to the #Everton striker #DuncanFerguson. Coincidentally, on the same night, Ferguson scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Manchester United. 260
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 19/04/2026On 19th April 1883, businessman Thomas Agnew founded the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first such society in Britain. Other cities followed his lead, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) was founded in 1889 #liverpool #history 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 18/04/2026On this day (18th April, 1892) #Everton played their last home game at #Anfield losing 5-2 to Bolton. Things then got much worse for the Blues when the ground they vacated was filled by a new team: #Liverpool FC. And tomorrow sees the first #merseysidederby at Everton's new #HillDickinsonStadium 122
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Two tragedies occurred on 15 April in #Liverpool #history. First the sinking of the Titanic (1912), a Liverpool-registered ship, with the loss of c.1,500 lives. Second the Hillsborough disaster (1989) where grossly negligent policing killed 97 Liverpool FC fans whose families still wait for justice. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 11/04/2026On 10 April (1911) a #Merseyside #football legend was born in #Birkenhead. On Boxing Day 1935, playing for #Tranmere Bunny Bell set the record for most goals in a match (9 in a 13-4 win vs Oldham), missing a pen in the same game. He later moved to #Everton but WWII effectively ended his career. 011
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 09/04/2026On 9th April 1811 the foundation stone was laid of St Luke's, the Bombed Out Church. Left a shell after being bombed in the 1941 May Blitz, the church is now one of the world's most poignant war memorials. Inside, a single liver bird survived on a stained glass window not destroyed by the bombs. 010
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 08/04/2026On 8 April 1989, former #LiverpoolUniversity student Amha Selassie was proclaimed final emperor of Ethiopia. The son of Haile Selassie (of #Rastafarian fame), Amha Selassie studied in #Liverpool in the late '30s, but was only ever emperor in exile in the UK and then in the US where he died in 1997. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 05/04/2026On this day in 1847 the inspiration for New York's #CentralPark opened in #Birkenhead. One of the world's first publicly funded parks, Birkenhead Park was designed by George Paxton, who also made Princes Park. Central Park's designer visited in 1858 + took the "People's Garden" idea back to NYC. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Judas burning was a Dingle Good Friday tradition unknown anywhere else in the UK. Children built effigies and carried them through the streets asking for "a penny for Judas's breakfast" before burning them in the late morning. The last Judas burnings took place in the '50s or early '60s. #liverpool 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 01/04/2026On this day (1st April) in 1976, John Lennon's dad, Alf, died (9 days after Paul McCartney's dad). Born in Liverpool in 1912, Alf was raised in the Blue Coat orphanage, running away to join a music hall troupe. Alf was off working at sea when John was born in 1940 and had little to do with his life. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 30/03/2026On this day (29 March 1913), a boy was born in Garston who went on to become "the UK's most powerful man". Jack Jones was a docker's son who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War and later led the UK's biggest trade union. A 1977 poll showed 54% of the public saw him as more powerful than the PM. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Hard to believe now but on this day in 1911, Bootle elected a Tory MP, Andrew Bonar Law, who later became the first prime minister from a Merseyside constituency. His 211 days reign made him the shortest serving PM of the 20th century, but still seem like an absolute lifetime relative to Liz Truss. 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 26/03/2026On this day in #Liverpoolhistory (27th March)... Robbie Fowler was fined £900 by UEFA because, after scoring against Brann Bergen in a European game the week before, he revealed a T-shirt in support of the 500 Liverpool dockers sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. 1997 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 25/03/2026On this day in #Liverpoolhistory (25th March), Liverpool's status as capital of the Atlantic slave trade was thankfully destroyed by parliament's vote to abolish that evil. Of Liverpool's two MPs, one (Isaac Gascoyne) voted for the slave trade. The other (William Roscoe) voted for abolition. 1807 000
Liverpool History Updates Daily @imaginaryliverpool.bsky.social · 24/03/2026On this day in #Liverpoolhistory (24th March)...the most famous Grand National saw Devon Loch, the Queen Mother's horse ridden by the author Dick Francis, mysteriously collapse in the home straight just 40 yards from certain victory. The fall handed victory to another Dick, David Dick on ESB. 1956. 000
